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Surely the preliminary report of the WHO investigators is good news – certainly puts the hypothesis that Covid-19 leaked from a research lab in the bin. Isnt that a relief? After all, why on earth would anyone hope that hypothesis was true? Peter Daszak, a British-American member of the WHO team in Wuhan, previously told USA TODAY that "in peoples imaginations there might be this image of one person in a lab in China who drops a petri dish and that somehow leads to a massive outbreak. Its j...

Not wearing a tie in Parliament is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about.  But the rules should be changed.

The Globe and Mail Published February 7, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Globe and Mail has been awarded for its dedication to highlighting issues affecting Canada’s physically disabled community. In making the announcement, the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disa...

Sabine 2.1.1.3.1.1 Well see i dont think it is factually incorrect. Both increased rates, to some extend. Both have not done enough. The labour party has campaigned on not doing anything else for beneficiaries and got voted in on this promise among others – those dear cross over fiscal conservatives votes came in handy winning an all out majority.. So yes, in my personal opinion, they are both the same when it comes to increasing the benefits of all beneficiaries to such...

The Government is providing $3 million in one-off seed funding to help disabled people around New Zealand stay connected and access support in their...

Whanganui Chronicle Person of the Year - runner-up: Sir Robert Martin 20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganui disability advocate Sir Robert Martin was knighted and re-elected to the United Nations Committee of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this year. Photo / Bevan Conley Today we begin our Whanganui Chronicle Person of the Year series. Last month we put the call out to our readers for nominations and from an impressive pool weve chosen four runners-up and a winner...

Disability issues. and on top of that, she was featured in one of beyonce celebrated fashion lines. yes, that beyonce. >> i first thought that i never wanted to be a model. if you dont know something -- >> if you cant see it out in the world, it is hard for you to imagine. >> exactly. so i collect all the magazines and "cosmo girl" and "vogue," and the person didnt have to be a wheelchair but to have a physical disability. so i thought i was going to be an editor at the magazine. >>like merrill ...

Why dont we fix the status problem of disabled people? >> yeah. yeah. >> and then people wont be so afraid to be like us. >> uh-huh. so john has a good point here. maybe the problem is not the physical limitations of disability. its our societys attitude that the real issue. the idea that if youre disabled you have no place in the culture. this is an idea that people with disabilities have continually fought against. meet my new bff, julian mercada. a fashion model shattering the image of the di...

And thats why im speaking out today because it matters deeply to me who the attorney general of the united states is. the attorney general is charged with protecting disability rights and deciding whether to enforce or erode the protections countless americans depend on. in the critical areas of health care, education, employment, voting and others. and we have a nominee who has a record of speaking against disability issues. hes called the protections for people with disabilities, and i quote, ...